A Canadian’s death at Iranian hands has ignited fierce rebuke from Ottawa, with Foreign Minister Anita Anand publicly verifying the loss on X amid Tehran’s brutal protest clampdown. She decried the authorities’ lethal riposte to citizens’ non-violent bids for reform and rights.
Labeling it a brazen dismissal of human value, Anand insisted: “Canada repudiates this violence and requires its prompt termination.” Silence persists on victim details or event logistics.
One day prior, G7 envoys from Ottawa vowed extra penalties if Iran defies rights treaties by quashing opposition.
“Reports of excessive deaths and injuries alarm us profoundly,” they noted, reproving protester slayings, intentional force, arbitrary cuffs, and intimidation ploys.
Geopolitics simmers: Trump warned of U.S. intervention absent a violence halt, per intel on promised restraint. Iran rebutted hanging threats, denying protester warrants.
UN chief Volker Turk this week mandated ending peaceful killings, scorning terrorist tags as violence cover. Hospitals strain with pediatric casualties among throngs.
NGOs gauge 2,500+ fatalities, verification thwarted by net curbs. With 3,054 compatriots in Iran, Canada beseeches departures.
Flashback to 2003: Zahra Kazemi’s in-custody demise underscores perilous precedents for dual nationals in Iran.